Wesleyan portrait of Lily Leopold Saint

Lily Leopold Saint

Associate Professor of English

285 Court Street, 308
860-685-3582

Coordinator, African Studies

1 Vine Street,
860-685-685-

lsaint@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Pennsylvania
PHD CUNY The Graduate Center

Lily Leopold Saint

Lily Saint is Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan. Her book Black Cultural Life in South Africa: Reception, Apartheid, and Ethics (University of Michigan Press 2018) explores the nexus of ethics and cultural practice in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. Saint is  editor with Bhakti Shringarpure of the new book series "Routledge African Writers: Intellectual Biographies, Literary Histories," and is writing the volume on J.M. Coetzee.  She co-edited a special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry on "Genre in Africa" (2017) and has published articles and essays in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, the Journal of African Cultural Studies, the Journal of the African Literature Association, Postcolonial Studies, the Journal of African Cinemas, and elsewhere. She is a regular contributor to Africa Is a Country.

At Wesleyan, she teaches classes on global and postcolonial literature and theory, contemporary and canonical African novels, historical fiction, and ethical theory.

Professor Saint has a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, which was awarded the Irving Howe Prize for Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature in 2011. She has a B.A. in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to Wesleyan, she taught in the English department at the University of Pittsburgh.

Academic Affiliations

Office Hours

Location: 285 Court #308

Courses

Spring 2024
CHUM 372 - 01
Dangerous Realisms

Fall 2024
ENGL 201H - 01
Ways of Reading: Influence

ENGL 221 - 01
The African Novel I